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Oct
16th

Ford warns that ‘Hard Brexit is a red line’

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As the UK government and EU struggle to find agreement on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU next year (in March) - especially with respect to trade arrangements - Ford has warned that a no-deal Brexit would 'severely damage the UK's competitiveness'. The company also said it will take 'whatever action is necessary to protect our business'.
Oct
16th

VW CEO issues warning to German automakers

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VW CEO Herbert Diess says that Germany's automakers only have a 50 percent chance of remaining leading players in the fast-changing auto industry.
Oct
16th

German luxury brands face twin hurdles in USMCA and Brexit

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Both Brexit and the USMCA have the potential of redrawing the map when it comes to the complex web of vehicle and component production.
Oct
16th

Skoda names new compact the Scala

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Skoda says it will rename its Rapid compact hatchback the Scala when the new model goes on sale next year. The Scala derives its name from the Latin word for "ladder," -- signifying a step up.
Oct
15th

Dealers collect what’s left following Hurricane Michael

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It's been five days since hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, but the restoration for the affected dealerships and their communities could take years.
Oct
15th

Rand study shows it’s hard to gauge self-driving car safety

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The great promise of automated vehicles is that they will be safer than human-driven ones, but finding the metrics to measure this is a complicated task that has no easy benchmarks.
Oct
15th

Car-shopping company Shift seeks to follow Carvana with 2020 IPO

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Shift, the five-year-old app-driven car shopping firm, could give auto retail group Lithia a chance to hedge against auto market disruption by cashing in on an IPO down the road.
Oct
15th

Nissan UK postpones pay talks until ‘Brexit clarity’

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Nissan, which operates Britain's biggest car factory in Sunderland, northeast England, reportedly has delayed the start of pay talks with workers until Brexit terms become clearer.
Oct
15th

German transport ministry to order 100,000-unit Opel recall

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Germany's transport ministry reportedly said it would order about 100,000 Opel vehicles to be recalled as part of an emissions probe, after prosecutors searched the PSA-owned automaker's offices earlier on Monday (15 October).
Oct
15th

Elena Ford named chief customer experience officer

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Elena Ford, great-great-granddaughter of Henry Ford, will become Ford Motor's chief customer experience officer as of Nov. 1, the automaker said.
Oct
15th

Opel sites searched by German prosecutors in diesel probe

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German prosecutors searched Opel's operations in Ruesselsheim and Kaiserslautern on Monday as part of a probe into possible diesel-emissions cheating.
Oct
15th

Wejo tracks 7m cars, acquires Carjojo.com in the US

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Wejo, a UK technology company which collates data from connected vehicles, said its technology was now tracking 7m vehicles in 190 countries and it has acquired a Silicon Valley based firm as part of its expansion plans.
Oct
15th

Tata taking orders for JLR platform based Harrier SUV

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Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata Motors has started taking orders for its new Harrier SUV which is built on architecture derived from Land Rover's D8 platform on which over 1m SUVs have already been sold worldwide.
Oct
15th

Bill Ford pulls out of Saudi investor conference – report

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Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford cancelled plans to attend a Saudi investor conference, the automaker said on Sunday.
Oct
15th

SDS opens new tech centre in China; marks 30 years of GKN JV

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GKN Automotive's Chinese joint venture, Shanghai GKN Huayu Driveline Systems (SDS), has officially opened a new technical centre in the suburb of Kangqiao to specialise in research and development of constant velocity joint (CVJ), All-Wheel Drive (AWD) and eDrive systems. The opening also marks 30 years since GKN established its automotive joint venture in China, the first Tier One supplier to do so.
Oct
15th

Minnow Birmingham pressings supplier wins Bentley contract

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A small English supplier has celebrated its 70th birthday with a supply contract from Volkswagen-owned Bentley.
Oct
15th

New 2018 Porsche Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo revealed

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New 2018 Porsche Panamera GTS Sport Turismo
News 15 Oct, 2018

Porsche wheels out the driver-focused GTS version of its new Panamera and Panamera Sport Turismo estate

Oct
15th

New 2018 Porsche Panamera GTS revealed – pictures

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Oct
15th

BMW, Northvolt, Umicore team up on battery recycling

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BMW will team up with Northvolt, which is building Europe's largest battery factory in Sweden, and Belgium's Umicore to develop a process for electric car batteries to be recycled.
Oct
15th

BMW, Northvolt and Umicore team up on battery recycling

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BMW will team up with Northvolt, which is building Europe's largest battery factory in Sweden, and Belgium's Umicore to develop a process for electric car batteries to be recycled.
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